summer for a mmnber of years , Gonionema was never found in 

 the Atlantic Ocean until 1394. This season a number of 

 specimens were taken from the "eel-pond", the creature hav- 

 ing made an astonishingly sudden appearance upon the scene. 

 It seeiris incredible that it could have been living in this 

 small body of water for any time previously, or at any rate 

 that a number of individuals had been there. But the medu- 

 sa at once secured a good "foot-hold" and since the first 

 summer has been very plentiful; its numbers remain undimin- 

 ished by the wholesale raids of collectors, in spite of the 

 keen anxiety of some of those especially interested in it. 

 Luring the summer of 1894 when the jelly-fish was first 

 found at Woods Hole Professor W.K.Brooks secured a number 

 of the specimens and made drawings both of live medusae and 

 of sections of preserved material. Some of these drawings, 

 figures 29, 30 and 33 are now published, with Dr. 

 Brooks' generous permission, for the first time. 



The first printed account of the Woods Hole Gonion - 

 ema , since recognized as a distinct species, was published 

 in 1895 by Dr. L. Murbach. The species has frequently been 

 mistaken for G^. vertens . It was not until 1901 that the 

 specific name Murbachii was bestowed upon it by Dr. A. G. 

 Meyjr (1901). The work which I have done on the life-his- 



